Hello everyone, I would like to make the source code of the Cassandra project more visible to people outside of the Cassandra Community and highlight the typical known issues in new contributions in the GitHub pull-request interface as well. This makes it easier for those who are unfamiliar with the accepted code style and just want to be part of a large and friendly community to add new contributions.
The ASF provides [1] the SonarClound facilities for the open source project, which are free to use, and we can also easily add the process of building and uploading reports to the build using GitHub actions with almost no maintenance costs for us. Of course, as a recommendation quality tool, it doesn't reject any changes/pull requests, so nothing will change from that perspective. I've prepared everything we need to do this here (we also need to modify the default Sonar Way profile to suit our needs, which I can't do as I don't have sufficient privileges): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18390 I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this. Examples: I did the same way for the Apache Ignite project, and here is how in the end it may look like. For the pull-requests queue: https://sonarcloud.io/project/pull_requests_list?id=apache_ignite The report itself for a pull request (the aggregation is used): https://github.com/apache/ignite/pull/10769 The main branch quality gate profile: https://sonarcloud.io/summary/overall?id=apache_ignite In addition to this: A developer can configure the SonarLint IDE plugin (available for IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse) to retrieve Cassandra's quality profiles and configured rules from the sonarcloud.io resource and highlight any violated warnings locally, making it easier to develop a new patch. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/SonarCloud+for+ASF+projects
